OpenAI turns AI proofs over to experts

OpenAI's models produced proofs of open problems in mathematics, computer science, and physics, and outside collaborations are now shepherding the results. — openai.com

Claude 3 Opus shows emergent wisdom

Claude 3 Opus exhibits a form of emergent wisdom that makes AI alignment largely a political problem rather than a technical one. — lesswrong.com

C++26 draft fails approval ballot

The C++26 standard draft failed its approval ballot, leaving ratification of the standard in doubt. — linkedin.com

FDT hinges on undefined logical counterfactuals

Functional decision theory depends on computational logical counterfactuals, a concept nobody has defined, leaving the theory ill-specified. — lesswrong.com

New LoRAs bring editing to LTX 2.3

Newly trained low-rank adapter models bring inpainting, reference-guided editing, and experimental video editing to LTX 2.3. — huggingface.co

Ghostty reaches full Kitty graphics support

Ghostty is now the first terminal other than Kitty to implement the complete Kitty graphics protocol, with large performance and memory improvements. — ghostty.org

Control monitors need alignment checks too

Systems that monitor AI agents can fail through misalignment rather than weakness, so they need the same kind of alignment assessments as the agents themselves. — lesswrong.com

Genie 4 simulates interactive worlds with audio

Genie 4 is a real-time world model that generates interactive scenes with native audio and is now in a trusted-tester preview. — deepmind.google

AI solves open conjecture in minutes

An AI coding assistant solved an open mathematics conjecture, and a human then spent days verifying the result. — lesswrong.com

Imagination Library passes 343 million books

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has gifted more than 343 million free books to children around the world. — imaginationlibrary.com